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muniment room

noun

, British.
  1. a storage or display room in a castle, church, university, or the like, where pertinent historical documents and records are kept.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of muniment room1

First recorded in 1655–65

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Example Sentences

The upper part above the porch proper contains, as mentioned above, a lofty chamber, probably originally the muniment-room.

The instance is taken from a map of the manor of Edgeware now in the All Souls muniment room.

These marks were noted in a variety of documents, belonging to the Corporation, one preserved in their muniment room.

Chatterton pretended to have found these among the contents of an old chest in the muniment room of St. Mary Redcliff's.

The upper storey, which until recently was used as the muniment room, was originally the chapel of St. Chad's Head.

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